Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Swell Maps ‎– "Train Out Of It" (Antar ‎– ANTAR 4) 1987

The growing cult of Swell Maps in America required the Godfrey brothers (Epic and Nikki), to go back into the Maps archives and produce another album of out-takes, demo's and alternative takes.They won't be doing this again because they are both dead!?....fucking hell is no-one excluded from this mortal paradox?....what?....I'm gonna die too????....you're having a laugh aren't you?.....SHIT!I suppose this is a rock'n'roll version of Schrödinger's cat?In the world of Rock'n'Roll Quantum mechanics they're both alive while dead at the same time; as long as you don't look. So listen to this, and we're all gonna live for ever.Even when we're dead.....as long as nobody checks.Even better, in the quantum world it will always be both 1979 and 2018 at the same time,depending on no-one being stupid enough to tell us it isn't.Another problem is that 1979 and 2018 are the musical equivalent of Matter and Anti-matter;so if they ever came in contact with each other they would annihilate themselves!!?...so be careful upon exposing the primordial brilliance that is/was/will be Swell Maps to the polluted air of the modern world, where even the slightest exposure to modern pop music could cause a very real and actual death of your brain......annihilation!

Track 1: recorded at W.M.R.S. - June 1979. Track 2: recorded at W.M.R.S. - April 1979. Track 3: recorded at Spaceward - December 1977. Track 4: recorded at W.M.R.S. - December 1978. Track 5: recorded at W.M.R.S. - June 1979. Track 6: recorded at W.S.R.S. - August 1984. Track 7: recorded at home - June 1981. Track 8: recorded at W.S.R.S. - December 1981. Track 9: recorded at W.M.R.S. - July 1981. Track 10: recorded at W.S.R.S. - August 1984. Track 11: recorded at Alvic Sound Studio - May 1981. Track 12: recorded at home - July 1977. Track 13: recorded at home - March 1980/June 1981. Track 14: recorded at home - 1973-1984. Track 15: recorded at W.M.R.S. - Dec. 1978/June 1980. Track 16: recorded at W.M.R.S. - December 1978. Track 17: recorded at Spaceward - September 1977. Track 18: recorded at W.M.R.S. - December 1978. Track 19: recorded at home - February 1975. Track 20: recorded at home - July 1977. Track 21: recorded at W.S.R.S. - August 1984/May 1986. Track 22: recorded at home - September 1975/March 1980. Track 23: recorded at W.S.R.S. - October 1981. Track 24: recorded at home/Alvic Sound Studio Aug 1980/May 1981. Track 25: recorded at W.S.R.S. - September 1981. Track 26: recorded at home/W.S.R.S. - June/September 1981.

Cival Disobedience is good:

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”